What are some of your favorite quotes, be they inspirational, religious, comical, or otherwise meaningful to you.

I have noted several below: 

Those who sow in tears, shall reap with shouts of joy.

Never give up ... for that's just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you -- they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

"take everything quakeroats says with a grain of salt" 

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant".

Get busy living, or get busy dying 

You only look stupid if you suck

Don't bother people with your problems because 88% don’t care and the other 12% are happy you have them

If all else fails, be nice.

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.

"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." 

"Not the triumph, but the struggle."

"Whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things have a good reputation; if there is any integrity and glory about them, think on these things."

posted by MontyBrunswick

"take everything quakeroats says with a grain of salt" 

LOL

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice

“The Democrats are the party that says government 
will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove crabgrass 
on your lawn.  The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.” 

"What other people think of me is none of my business."

"Well done is better than well said."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

Don't trust whitey.

If you don't have time to do it right, when do you have time to do it again?  John Wooden

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde

...keep you friends close, but your enemies closer.

What you ignore you condone.

Life is hard.  Going through life stupid is really hard.

Dont throw stones if you live in a glass house.

posted by Spock

What you ignore you condone.

I ignore the friggin’ ultra negative bore that sits down the hall from me and I certainly don’t condone his crap though. 

When someone is doing a half ass job:

There are two ways to do things: the right way and the bullshit way. Guess which one you are doing?

When you and a friend are being chased by a bear, it's not necessary for you to outrun the bear.  It's necessary for you to outrun your friend.  

"a parents' happiness is determined by their least happiest child"

"praise in public, criticize in private"

Just Do It.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

A little too long for motivation, but I've always liked Emerson's definition of success.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

It's better to have lobsters on the piano than crabs on the organ.  

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

It's better to have lobsters on the piano than crabs on the organ.  

to continue the theme... "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish"